He’s coming to the twin cities!
Earlier this week a friend mentioned that he had added a date in St Paul for May 21st. Earlier in the week I still couldn’t buy tickets so I’m hoping I can fix that this weekend.
The show is going to be at Station 4 in lowertown.
This just in:
Good News! Biodiesel B100 will be offered at the pump tomorrow at the Pump-N-Munch on Lyndale and 63rd in South Minneapolis from 10-2 on Saturday April 29th.
More information about the group producing this can be had at www.tcbiodiesel.com and www.biodieselblue.com.
Unfortunately I couldn’t wait for a fill up yesterday and since I hadn’t heard any solid details I went ahead and did my first fill up at a Holiday in Bloomington.
I also went looking around and the official word from VW is that using anything more than B5 might void my warranty. Given that my new vehicle still has just over 20k miles left on the powertrain warranty, I’m a bit wary of taking that step just yet.
Something interesting from comparing the bottles I have on my desk right at this moment:
| Soda | OZ | Calories | Sugar |
| Berries & Cream Dr. Pepper | 20 | 250 | 65g |
| Bundaberg Australian Ginger Beer | 12.7 | 170 | 40g |
| Snow | 12 | 112.5 | 25.5 |
| White Rock Organics | 12 | 120 | 30 |
Target’s Archer Farms line of food products now has a “premium” soda available, at least in the Twin Cities market. I saw 4 flavors today at a non-SuperTarget close to work: Sarsparilla, Ginger Beer, Strawberry Creme, and Diet Peach. I picked up a 4pack of all but the Diet and should have had a chance to taste all of them by the weekend. The ingredients do list sugar instead of HFCS, so I have some hope that it might be at least drinkable and if it’s done by the same people who make their “Italian Soda” line of beverages there’s a strong chance there will be at least one good flavor in there.
So while I was filling up the fuel tank for the first time on my new-to-me 2003 VW Golf GLS TDI, I ended up having to go into the store to pay for the gas. Looks like the modern convenience of the card reader hasn’t made it to the diesel pumps yet.
Anyway, while in the store I figured that I’d take a look for anything new and lo and behold they had bottles of Berries & Cream Dr Pepper.
So how is it? Well, it’s a lot like Dr Pepper. Seriously. The base flavor is very strongly the classic Dr Pepper flavor, it’s just that they’ve added a bit of something else in there. That something else comes off as a relatively light but additional sweetness and a fairly soft vanilla finish. The Vanilla Coke and Pepsi people could learn something from the vanilla flavor Cadbury Shweppes and Co are using in this. Certainly worth a try, but nothing astonishing and new as far as I’m concerned.
Unfortunately they did not have bottles of the new “100% Natural” 7-Up. That’s something that I’m actually looking forward to trying.
